In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Cauchi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>Besides the Aeneid, in how many other ancient writings (pre- and
>>post-Virgil) does the story of the Trojan Horse and, particularly, the
>>role of Sinon, appear?
>
>Lempriere in his Classical Dictionary cites the following references at the
>end of the article on Sinon:
>
>Dares Phrygius; Homer, Odyssey 8.492 and 11.521; Virgil, Aeneid 2.79ff.;
>Pausanias 10, chap. 27; and lastly "Q. Smyrn. 10" (whoever and whatever
>that is).
Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica; a late imperial poem on events after
the Iliad, not very wonderful but with a rather good episode in book 10
when the wounded Paris begs Oenone to heal him; she gives him the brush-
off ('Get out of my house and go to Helen'), then decides too late that
she does still love him after all and throws herself on his funeral
pyre.

Leofranc Holford-Strevens 
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